Prospect Info: Blues 2024-2025 Prospect Thread

[Antiillafire]

Pekarcik playing first line LW today in pre tournament game vs Finland (no stream). His centre is a fill in for Dvorsky and likely will be cut from the team, his RW plays college for UMASS and will play that spot for the tournament

 

[Mike Liut]

Stenberg on the top line and Lindstein on the top pairing for Sweden. Dvorsky and Pakarcik on the top line for Slovakia. Juricek top pairing for the Checks. Kos might be on their top line. Anybody else?

 

[ExtremeColdWeather]

I guess Stancl and Jecho will play in the top 6 for the Czechs

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Is this the best the Blues pipeline has ever been? I can't ever remember our system being this stacked.

 

[stlbluz]

Is this the best the Blues pipeline has ever been? I can't ever remember our system being this stacked.

Absolutely not. Armstrong should be fired for this travesty & we want to see Kyrou move on to be a consistent 50+ goal scorer for another team. That's the Blues way for 3 uneducated wanna-be GMs.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

The Blues have low key really lit it up with their drafting the last few years. Some of the mid-round picks have turned into legit prospects, and their value picks have all stayed on track or risen. I know there are a handful of guys who will play NHL games from our prospect pool that most of us don't know much about yet, being distracted by the 1st rounders.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Sometimes with rosters you should take it with a grain of salt, some of it is just selecting the few NHL caliber prospects from lesser nations. The Canadian equivalent of some of these guys do not make Canada. Now, we've still done well, but it's not like our group has a ton of high-end talent.

 

[PocketNines]

Hey guess what everybody? That Sweden Czech Blues prospect scrimmage game? Guess when it's scheduled? The exact moment of the Winter Classic game, cool. lol

 

[Mike Liut]

Sometimes with rosters you should take it with a grain of salt, some of it is just selecting the few NHL caliber prospects from lesser nations. The Canadian equivalent of some of these guys do not make Canada. Now, we've still done well, but it's not like our group has a ton of high-end talent.

So we aren’t going to be a 10 year dynasty like I thought?

 

[STL fan in MN]

So we aren’t going to be a 10 year dynasty like I thought?

We have a good prospects pool but he makes a good point. We have 6 guys concentrated on the Czech and Slovak teams. They’re good but most wouldn’t get a consideration for Team Canada. Quinton Burns is about the same level of them and wasn’t much of a consideration.

 

[Mike Liut]

We have a good prospects pool but he makes a good point. We have 6 guys concentrated on the Czech and Slovak teams. They’re good but most wouldn’t get a consideration for Team Canada. Quinton Burns is about the same level of them and wasn’t much of a consideration.

I was just teasing. Yeah, he’s definitely correct

 

[kimzey59]

Is this the best the Blues pipeline has ever been? I can't ever remember our system being this stacked.

In terms of Hype; the era with EJ/Pietrangelo/Oshie definitely had more press behind them(though a lot of that was a PR campaign by Dave Checkett's), but I'm not sure they were actually more talented. We'll have to wait and see.

In terms of talent; there was a stretch in the mid 80's where we had Gilmour, Ronning, Emerson, Jocelyn Lemieux, Guy Hebert, Rod Brind'Amour, Bret Hedican, Tony Twist, Brian Benning, Tony Hrkac, Robert Dirk, Herb Raglan and Glen Featherstone(those are just the ones who played 300+ games; there were several others that made the League such as Pat Jablonski, Rob Nordmark, Steve Tuttle and Tom Tilley) in the system at the same time.
The current kids are going to have their work cut out for them to match that group, especially the headliners(Gilmour, Brind'Amour, Hedican, Hebert, Ronning and the Legend of Legends, Tony Twist). Again; we'll have to wait and see with them.